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Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos
From their early years as the Duluth Kelleys to their infamous 1926?1927 season led by the legendary back Ernie Nevers, Leatherheads of the North tells the true story of the Duluth Eskimos, the hard-luck squad of future hall-of-famers that inspired the 2007 Hollywood blockbuster Leatherheads starring George Clooney and Renee Zellweger.
Paperback, 163 pages
Published
October 28th 2007
by X-Communication
(first published October 2007)
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This is one of those books that I really didn't think I would like when I first picked it up. After all, how interesting can football in the 1920s really get??
Oh was I wrong! While the football game summaries get a bit confusing (the game was played dramatically different then), there is a lot of intrigue into the life of Ole Haugsrud, a man who deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Ernie Nevers and the rest of this vagabond team.
If you are interested in the earl...more
Oh was I wrong! While the football game summaries get a bit confusing (the game was played dramatically different then), there is a lot of intrigue into the life of Ole Haugsrud, a man who deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Ernie Nevers and the rest of this vagabond team.
If you are interested in the earl...more
The George Clooney movie "Leatherheads" was based on this true story of the nascent days of pro football. I'm as much a football historian as I am a fan, so I love stories like this. It's hard to look at the billion-dollar industry the NFL has become and imagine that it once existed as a minor diversion in small Midwestern cities -- places like Green Bay were once the rule, not the exception -- while most people looked at it scornfully and didn't even consider it a "real" spo...more
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Still a work in progress, this is a very good read for local Duluth-ians interested in local sports history and/or the history of early professional football.
I good history of the early NFL. The George Clooney movie set for April '08 release looks like a bad adaptation of the Eskimo's story.
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